Tips and Tricks- Op Fire.

[Otto von Blotto]

Good advice Rob, I certainly advise changing the default settings on the first turn or two, and I never leave the same op fire levels for the whole game. One thing I like to do once contact with the other side is made and I think they have worked out my op fire settings is to change them every couple of turns, this keeps them guessing one of the best is after a few turns of long hard target op fire then set hard targets to short range and set soft to long range this can pick off loaded trucks etc being moved up once your adversary thinks your op fire is used up.

Don’t have anti tank units op fire at infantry or soft targets unless they are breathing down your neck, as they aren’t that good at it and it gives away your position. Remember the anti tank setting also counts for your mobile anti tank too (I believe can anyone confirm this?), you want them picking off hard targets as they close on you.

Remember the default setting is for all units but you can pick units and change the setting for just that unit, this is extremely useful for forward scouts and ambushes.

The gods of op fire are very fickle never shoting when you want them too and it adds great tension to the battle replays, the best way to get round op fire is to move slowly one hex at a time rather than many hex's at once.